News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words
have the language and they know how to frame the argument. It makes the health journalist’s job ever more difficult – and even more important. HERSH, SEYMOUR Seymour ‘Sy’ Hersh (b. 1937) would, for much of the past fifty years, be included in any conversation about the best American investigative journalists. He was
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’. Politico, 20 March 2020. <https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-citizens-back-their-leaders-coronavirus-response-say-polls/> Byers, Dylan. ‘The New Yorker passed on Seymour Hersh’s Bin Laden story’. Politico, 11 May 2015. <https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/the-new-yorker-passed-on
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York and Toronto: Pantheon Books, 1988. Herr, Michael. Dispatches. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 1991. Hersh, Seymour M. The Dark Side of Camelot. Reprint edition. New York: Back Bay Books, 1998. Hersh, Seymour M. ‘Military to Military: Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war’. London Review of Books, 7 January 2016. <https
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2004. <https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/02/26/now-they-tell-us/> Massing, Michael. ‘Breaking News: Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting’. The Nation, 27 September 2018. <https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/seymour-hersh-reporter/> Mayhew, Freddy. ‘Times titles win big at Society of Editors’ Press Awards’. Press Gazette, 3
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt · 3 Sep 2007 · 801pp · 229,742 words
make sure that nobody else was shown the evidence, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. According to the journalist Seymour Hersh, “Johnson’s purpose in chasing Helms—and his intelligence—away was clear: he did not want to know what the CIA was trying to tell
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realistic assessment of Syria’s strategic needs.” Leverett also believes improved relations are “critical to his [Assad’s] long-term ambitions for internal reform.”11 Seymour Hersh, who visited Assad in his Damascus office in 2003, found him eager to talk because “he wanted to change his image, and the image of
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, in effect implying that Syria was partly responsible.52 In much the same vein, Itamar Rabinovich, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, told Seymour Hersh that he “wondered … whether, given the quality of their sources, the Syrians had had advance information about the September 11th plot—and failed to warn
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the United States, even taking into account its possible role in helping the Iraqi insurgency. Assad was actually eager to cooperate with Washington; according to Seymour Hersh, his chief of military intelligence told the administration that Syria would even be willing to work through back channels to discuss ways of restricting the
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military strikes if Iran continues down the nuclear road. “No option,” American leaders are fond of saying, “is off the table.”70 James Bamford and Seymour Hersh have separately described how many of the same individuals who planned the Iraq war have devised the Pentagon’s plans for a military campaign against
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seeing now had already been blocked out and, in the last year or two, it’s been simulated and rehearsed across the board.”3 Similarly, Seymour Hersh reported, “Several current and former officials involved in the Middle East told me that Israel viewed the soldiers’ kidnapping as the opportune moment to begin
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war, “an open advocate of preemptive war against Syria and Hezbollah, a position favored by neoconservatives in and close to the Bush administration.”12 When Seymour Hersh reports, as quoted above, that Israel was interested in getting “the support of [Cheney’s] office and the Middle East desk of the National Security
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and strategy that the U.S. military might use in an air war against Iran’s nuclear facilities. As one U.S. government consultant told Seymour Hersh, “Why oppose it? We’ll be able to hunt down and bomb missiles, tunnels, and bunkers from the air. It would be a demo for
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(New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), 40–41. 61. Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1989), 275–77; and Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (New York: Random House, 1991), 3–8. 62. Ephraim Kahana, “Mossad-CIA Cooperation,” International
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–United States Relations,” November 9, 2004, 14–15; and Joshua Mitnick, “U.S. Accuses Officials of Spying,” Washington Times, December 16, 2004. 96. The journalist Seymour Hersh claims that Israel passed some of the stolen intelligence to the Soviet Union in order to gain exit visas for Soviet Jews. Others have challenged
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this assertion, but Hersh stands by his story. Seymour M. Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (New York: Random House, 1991), 285–305; and
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Seymour M. Hersh, “Why Pollard Should Never Be Released,” New Yorker, January 18, 1999. 97. On these incidents, see Edward T. Pound and David Rogers, “Inquiring Eyes: An
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to Americans: Blast Iraqis Immediately,” Jerusalem Post, August 12, 1990. 18. Aluf Benn, “Sharon Shows Powell His Practical Side,” Ha’aretz, February 26, 2001. 19. Seymour Hersh, “The Iran Game,” New Yorker, December 3, 2001; Peter Hirschberg, “Background: Peres Raises Iranian Threat,” Ha’aretz, February 5, 2002; David Hirst, “Israel Thrusts Iran
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, 2002; Robert Dreyfuss, “The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA,” American Prospect, December 16, 2002; Michael Elliott and James Carney, “First Stop, Iraq,” Time, March 31, 2003; Seymour Hersh, “The Iraq Hawks,” New Yorker, December 24–31, 2001; Michael Hirsh, “Hawks, Doves and Dubya,” Newsweek, September 2, 2002; Glenn Kessler, “U.S. Decision on
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Who Pushed for War,” Guardian, July 17, 2003; David S. Cloud, “Prewar Intelligence Inquiry Zeroes in on Pentagon Office,” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2004; Seymour M. Hersh, “Selective Intelligence,” New Yorker, May 12, 2003; Kwiatkowski, “New Pentagon Papers”; W. Patrick Lang, “Drinking the Kool-Aid,” Middle East Policy 11, no. 2
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first strike at Israel.” “Update the Gas Masks, There’s a Syrian Threat,” Ha’aretz, August 5, 2003. 6. Quoted in Martin, “Experts Disagree.” 7. Seymour M. Hersh, “The Syrian Bet,” New Yorker, July 28, 2003. Also see Richard Spring, “This Is Not Another Iran,” Guardian, October 27, 2006. 8. The generally
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that Jerusalem was “redoubling efforts to warn the Bush administration that Iran poses a greater threat than the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.” Also see Seymour M. Hersh, “The Iran Game,” New Yorker, December 3, 2001; Peter Hirschberg, “Background: Peres Raises Iranian Threat,” Ha’aretz, February 5, 2002; David Hirst, “Israel Thrusts
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Stone, July 24, 2006; Seymour M. Hersh, “The Coming Wars,” New Yorker, January 24/31, 2005; Seymour M. Hersh, “The Iran Plans,” New Yorker, April 17, 2006; Seymour M. Hersh, “Last Stand,” New Yorker, July 10, 2006; Seymour M. Hersh, “The Redirection,” New Yorker, March 5, 2007; and “Iran: The Next Strategic Target,” Seymour Hersh interview with Amy Goodman of
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Upside in Criticizing Israel,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 7, 2006; and Tanya Reinhart, “Israel’s ‘New Middle East,’ ” CounterPunch.org, July 27, 2006. 4. Seymour M. Hersh, “Watching Lebanon,” New Yorker, August 21, 2006. Similarly, Matthew Kalman writes, “In the years since Israel ended its military occupation of southern Lebanon, it watched
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Kissinger: A Biography
by Walter Isaacson · 26 Sep 2005 · 1,330pp · 372,940 words
whether he actually had secret knowledge about the Paris talks that he improperly provided to the Nixon camp. That charge is most forcefully made in Seymour Hersh’s The Price of Power, which relies heavily on accusations made by Richard Allen. The story that Allen told Hersh, and later expanded on in
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decided to hold the story for a day or so.5 By then it was too late for the Post. The New York Times’s Seymour Hersh also had the information. His source was William Sullivan, the FBI’s number-three man. Eager to become FBI director, he had sent Kissinger a
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a special niche, and the Vietnam War had produced a new breed of more skeptical reporters along the lines of David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, and Seymour Hersh at the New York Times. But establishment insiders such as Joseph Alsop, Walter Lippmann, and James Reston, who rubbed elbows with the mighty at the
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tended to be deferential, especially the columnists whose color and insight depended upon his returned phone calls. “The routine resembled an implicit shakedown scheme,” charged Seymour Hersh, an intense investigative reporter and Kissinger critic.2 What many reporters failed to realize was that writing negative stories about Kissinger generally did not result
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invasion of Cambodia after talking to Frankel. But generally, Frankel and his bureau provided the toughest coverage of Kissinger, including investigative stories by Szulc and Seymour Hersh. Leslie Gelb, the paper’s national security correspondent, had been a doctoral student and then a teaching assistant under Kissinger at Harvard. But his accounts
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a Nixon comment on the White House tapes that seemed to say, in reference to the wiretaps, that Kissinger had “asked that it be done.” Seymour Hersh revealed in the New York Times three days later that Kissinger’s office “was directly responsible” for aspects of the program. Bob Woodward and Carl
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to Congress for $28 million in new funds that the facts began to leak. A page-one New York Times story on December 13 by Seymour Hersh detailed the full extent of the covert program and revealed that it had provoked Nathaniel Davis’s resignation. Senator Dick Clark of Iowa, who had
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continued, “they have a nasty editorial about you. Should I write them a letter?” Kissinger’s reputation took a more serious beating in 1983, when Seymour Hersh’s scathing indictment of his first four years as national security adviser, The Price of Power, was published. A cascade of columns and news stories
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, May 12, 1973; Wise, The American Police State, 78–82; Time, Feb. 26, 1973; Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, 344–47. 6. Seymour Hersh, “Kissinger Said to Have Asked for Taps,” NYT, May 17, 1973; Hersh, The Price of Power, 400; Murrey Marder, “Kissinger Stung,” WP, May 20, 1973
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. Edward Mulcahy, Feb. 11, 1991; Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, 21–23; Garthoff, Détente and Confrontation, 512–15; Klinghoffer, The Angolan War, 110–35. 6. Seymour Hersh, “Angolan Aid Issue Opening Rifts in State Department,” NYT, Dec. 14, 1975; also, NYT, Nov. 7, 1975, and WP, Nov. 8, 1975; Nathaniel Davis, “The
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Books, 1975. Herring, George. America’s Longest War. New York: Knopf, 1985. ———, ed. The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War. Austin: University of Texas, 1983. Hersh, Seymour. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. New York: Summit, 1983. ———. The Samson Option. New York: Random House, 1991. Hodgson, Godfrey. America
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Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill · 22 Apr 2013 · 1,117pp · 305,620 words
invoked executive privilege and stymied the probe. At one point during the Church investigations, Cheney attempted to compel the FBI to investigate famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh and to seek an indictment against him and the New York Times for espionage in retaliation for Hersh’s exposé on illegal domestic spying by
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, particularly General Holland, for what they saw as excessive caution. A Pentagon adviser who worked closely with Rumsfeld at the time told the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that Rumsfeld and his team were convinced that “there [were] few four-stars leaning forward in the Special Operations Command,” and that more “fighting generals
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Pentagon on steroids. “They weren’t getting anything substantive from the detainees in Iraq” early on in the invasion, a former senior intelligence official told Seymour Hersh. “No names. Nothing that they could hang their hat on. Cambone says, ‘I’ve got to crack this thing and I’m tired of working
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(1976). 5 “engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination”: Executive Order No. 12036, Fed. Reg. 3674, 3688, 3689 (1978). 5 Muammar el Qaddafi: Seymour M. Hersh, “Target Qaddafi,” New York Times Magazine, February 22, 1987. 5 Saddam Hussein’s palaces: “The United States Navy in ‘Desert Shield’/‘Desert Storm’; V: ‘Thunder
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”: Woodward, Bush at War, p. 103. 23 majority of the first Americans: Pelton, Licensed to Kill, pp. 30–32. 23 seven to two dozen: Seymour M. Hersh, “Manhunt: The Bush Administration’s New Strategy in the War Against Terrorism,” New Yorker, December 23, 2002, p. 66; James Risen and David Johnson, “Threats
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United States of America on 9/11.” 59 “no choice”: Transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld News Briefing in Brussels,” December 18, 2001. 59 draw up a list: Seymour Hersh, “Manhunt: The Bush Administration’s New Strategy in the War Against Terrorism,” New Yorker, December 23, 2002. 60 “exploring targets”: Memorandum to President George W
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Yemen; Three US Aid Workers Slain in a Hospital,” Christian Science Monitor, December 31, 2002. 75 meeting with tribal officials: Ibid. 75 multiple mobile phones: Seymour M. Hersh, “Manhunt: The Bush Administration’s New Strategy in the War Against Terrorism,” New Yorker, December 23, 2002. 75 “compound under surveillance”: Michael DeLong, with
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us sift”: Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, “Pentagon Sets Up Intelligence Unit,” New York Times, October 24, 2002. 82 justification for an invasion of Iraq: Seymour M. Hersh, “Selective Intelligence: Donald Rumsfeld Has His Own Special Sources—Are They Really Reliable?” New Yorker, May 12, 2003. 82 “do it a lot better
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are not under the direction and control of a military commander should not be considered as ‘traditional military activities.’” 92 no real-time oversight rights: Seymour M. Hersh, “Preparing the Battlefield; The Bush Administration Steps Up Its Secret Moves Against Iran,” New Yorker, July 7, 2008. 92 “Preparing the Battlespace,” Advance Force
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). 93 delegating military assets: 50 United States Code, Section 413b, “Presidential Approval and Reporting of Covert Actions.” 93 “organize for a manhunt,” “develop a plan”: Seymour M. Hersh, “Manhunt: The Bush Administration’s New Strategy in the War Against Terrorism,” New Yorker, December 23, 2002. 93 five-year plan: Rowan Scarborough, “Billions
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, January 25, 2005; Gellman, “Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld’s Domain.” 95 Strategic Support Branch: Gellman, “Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld’s Domain.” 95 transferred Gray Fox: Seymour M. Hersh, “The Coming Wars,” New Yorker, January 24, 2005. 96 “emerging target countries,” “without detection”: Gellman, “Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld’s Domain.” The following details
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US Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World (Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2005), p. 369. 145 “weren’t getting anything substantive”: Seymour M. Hersh, “The Gray Zone: How a Secret Pentagon Program Came to Abu Ghraib,” New Yorker, May 24, 2004. 146 “Rumsfeld’s answer”: Jane Mayer, The Dark
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, former Air Force interrogator, June 2012. 160 changed the letterhead: Committee on Armed Services, Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees, p. 167. 160 eventually investigated: Seymour M. Hersh, “The General’s Report: How Antonio Taguba, Who Investigated the Abu Ghraib Scandal, Became One of Its Casualties,” New Yorker, June 25, 2007. 160
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, Michael, 106, 333, 349, 435 Hayden, Michael, 236, 248, 249, 354, 504 Hayes, Stephen, 84 Haynes, William, 24 Herridge, Catherine, 71, 73 Herrington, Stuart, 148 Hersh, Seymour, 10, 94, 145 Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG), 167 HIG. See Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Higgie, Lincoln, III, 35–36 High Value Detainee program, 25
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
presented himself as a volunteer at McCarthy headquarters. “With these two typewriters,” he told the McCarthy campaign’s press secretary, an intense young Chicagoan named Seymour Hersh, “we’re going to overthrow the government.” He did not say, significantly, “We’re going to elect Gene McCarthy.” At that prospect, many Dump Johnson
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like clockwork. We had two entire companies on the ground in less than an hour.” Richard Goodwin quit the McCarthy campaign to join Kennedy’s. Seymour Hersh, a fierce moralist, was almost ready to quit McCarthy in disgust at all the opportunism in Democratic politics and go back to his previous trade
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those public moments where he had to appear as if nothing whatsoever was wrong. Sunday morning, August 25, the nation learned, from an article by Seymour Hersh in the New York Times Magazine, that America maintained large stockpiles of weapons for chemical and biological warfare. Sunday afternoon was the Festival of Life
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of their captivity: “There is clear evidence that North Vietnam has violated even the most fundamental standards of human decency.” But two years later, when Seymour Hersh investigated, he discovered a letter from the Pentagon in which Laird reassured the prisoners’ families he was exaggerating: “We are certain that you will not
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the New York Times or Washington Post, but in several midtier papers that subscribed to a small outfit called the Dispatch News Service. The author, Seymour Hersh, couldn’t interest the big papers in what he had found. He reported that in the awful, bloody wake of the Tet Offensive, on March
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on the administration but attracting more and more violent lunatics. Now things seemed to be stirring again. Cambodia and the Panthers were catalysts. So was Seymour Hersh’s new book My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath. It was excerpted in the May issue of Harper’s. A
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. Governor King began making absurdly high: Jules Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970), 265. Richard Goodwin and Seymour Hersh: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 93. “under any conceivable circumstances”: Barone, Our Country, 433. primary entrance requirements: Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 117
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; Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 427. For day-by-day listing of Vietnam deaths, see http://www.viethero.us/Wall/panel.htm. Perhaps eager for good news: Seymour Hersh, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath (New York: Random House, 1970), 79. The official brigade report: Ibid., 92–102. Richard
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Goodwin and Seymour Hersh: Shadegg, Winning’s a Lot More Fun, 143. Nelson Rockefeller after RFK entrance: Ibid., 140; Chester, Page, and Hodgson, American Melodrama, 221. He had a
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President 1968, 71. Southern delegates kept alive: Ibid., 327; Farber, Chicago ’68, 136. Polls showed Humphrey: White, Making of the President 1968, 326. Sunday morning: Seymour Hersh, “The Secret Arsenal,” NYTM, August 25, 1968. Time ran a picture: “Daley City Under Siege,” Time, August 30, 1968. Sunday night, at ten forty-five
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Mylai [sic],” Life, December 5, 1969. Time’s essay began: “My Lai: An American Tragedy,” Time, December 5, 1969. Man-on-the-street interviews began: Seymour Hersh, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath (New York: Random House, 1970), 150–51. On December 8 Richard Nixon: PPP 481
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of Denver Clarion, May 6, 1970, MIP. A New York Times editorial: “Waste Them,” NYT, April 15, 1970, 42. He had traveled fifty thousand miles: Seymour Hersh, My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath (New York: Random House, 1970). Nixon’s May Day began: Reeves, President Nixon, 209
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Margo Howard, A Life in Letters: Ann Landers’ Letters to Her Only Child (New York: Warner Books, 2003), 45–46. Either way, Chuck Colson sent: Seymour Hersh, “Nixon’s Last Coverup,” New Yorker, December 14, 1992. “The shock is not that there’s”: NYDN, January 23, 1972. “I believe in white supremacy
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Calley Jr. New York: Touchstone, 1971. Haldeman, H. R. The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994. Hersh, Seymour. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath. New York: Random House, 1970. Hershberger, Mary. Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography
The Profiteers
by Sally Denton · 556pp · 141,069 words
family jewels.” While some of the files had been splashed on the front page of the New York Times in an explosive article written by Seymour Hersh, nearly all of the several thousand pages of documents from the investigation were classified and hidden from public view for the next thirty-five years
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the abuses at Abu Ghurayb conducted by American GIs were broadcast on CBS’s 60 Minutes II and exposed in an explosive series written by Seymour Hersh for the New Yorker. The administration essentially hired Bechtel as its contracting arm to build bridges, roads, power plants, water treatment projects, hospitals, and schools
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vehemently advocate that Pollard should die in jail for placing allegiance to Israel over loyalty to the United States. Such stalwarts include legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, longtime editor of the New Republic Martin Peretz, and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Vice President Joe Biden has been particularly vocal on the
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”: Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010), 40–41. “to occupy the country”: McCone, quoted in Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), 349. “Central Intrigue Agency”: Pearson, June 17, 1962. “a damned Murder Inc.”: LBJ quoted by Leo
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contend that his sources told him that McCone “anguished with Bobby over the terrible possibility that the assassination plots sanctioned” by Bobby may have backfired. Seymour Hersh wrote that there was no evidence that McCone knew about the plots against Castro. “The murder attempts, prodded by Bobby Kennedy, probably went on behind
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told the US Justice Department that he began spying in July 1984 and that he offered his services rather than having been recruited. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported that Pollard “offered to supply Israel with intelligence as early as 1980, but was not recruited as an operative until the fall of 1981
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, three years earlier than he and the Israeli government have admitted.” Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (New York: Random House, 1991), 285. The CIA Damage Assessment of the Pollard case
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, Territory of Lies, 209. “to provide Israel” . . . “collection requirements”: Jonathan Jay Pollard Espionage Case, v–viii. According to a 2013 author interview with investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who has written about the Pollard Affair, Pollard’s handler, Eitan, was trading Pollard’s classified information with the Soviet Union in exchange for help
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. New York: Bloomsbury, 1995. Hersh, Berton. The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992. Hersh, Seymour. The Dark Side of Camelot. Boston: Little, Brown, 1997. _____. The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. New York: Random House, 1991
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, April 13, 2003. _____. “War Hawks’ History Neat Fit with Present.” South Florida Sun Sentinel, April 17, 2003. _____. “Ultimate Insiders.” New York Times, April 14, 2003. Hersh, Seymour M. “Huge CIA Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years.” New York Times, December 22, 1974. _____. “The Iran Pipeline
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, 97–98, 162 Kennedy’s assassination and, 80 Henry J. Kaiser Co., 30 Herbert, Bob, 230 Hercules Powder Company, 50 Heritage Foundation, 163, 229, 309 Hersh, Seymour, 128, 235, 301, 329n80, 344n174, 346n178 Hezbollah, 187 Hiltzik, Michael, 28, 38 Hiroshima bombing, Japan, 10, 68–69 Hobson, David, 11, 263 Hoffman, Gil, 182
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves
by Matthew Sweet · 13 Feb 2018 · 493pp · 136,235 words
brought them into being: a project whose existence was known to only a handful of intelligence officers, secretarial staff, and government officials. The investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was the first beyond this circle to discover its existence. He observed its effects but could not name it, like an astronomer who suspects the
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was breaking: the My Lai massacre, in which hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians were murdered by U.S. soldiers in March 1968. The investigative reporter Seymour Hersh published the first account of this incident on November 12, 1969. As the world recoiled in horror, Lane hunted for similar stories among the deserters
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. He also told them not to believe anything they read in Ramparts magazine. He failed to put their minds at rest. Early in December 1974, Seymour Hersh, the investigative reporter who had brought the first news of the My Lai massacre, heard whispers about Langley’s biggest secret. His anonymous sources could
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it appeared self-evident that the NCLC charges are only twisted fantasy, your circulation of them forces the CIA to deny them flatly as false.” Seymour Hersh’s articles on Operation Chaos were eleven months away. After that, such protests would be pointless. And the archive now shows that, contrary to Colby
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to bed with the girl or guy—or child”: Linda Wolfe, “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” New York Magazine, February 28, 1972. “Despite intensive interviews”: Seymour M. Hersh, “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years,” New York Times, December 22, 1974. 6: THE
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, November 2, 1969. Beacon Press: Thomas Lee Hayes to Richard Fernandez, Clergy and Laity Concerned Records, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, PA. Seymour Hersh published the first account: Seymour M. Hersh, “Lieutenant Accused of Murdering 109 Civilians,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 13, 1969. “We were told to make use of electrical radio equipment
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C. Monje, The Central Intelligence Agency: A Documentary History (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2008), p. 114. Hersh’s story ran in the New York Times: Seymour Hersh, “Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years,” New York Times, December 22, 1974. Operation Destruction
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Lee Heath, William Womack Hedman, Margareta Hegel, G. W. F. Helén, Gunnar Helms, Richard Henry IV, Part 2 (Shakespeare) Herb Society of America Hermansson, Håkan Hersh, Seymour Hershey, Lewis B. Heschel, Abraham Joshua Hill, Fiona Hiroshima Mon Amour (film) Ho Chi Minh Hoffman, Dustin Hog Farm collective Holmer, Hans Homeland Security Department
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
by Jim Rasenberger · 4 Apr 2011 · 742pp · 202,902 words
’s statement notwithstanding, some historians and journalists who have studied the matter hold, with Nixon, that Kennedy was told plenty. The journalist and author Seymour M. Hersh, in his book The Dark Side of Camelot, insinuates that Allen Dulles, in the spirit of friendship and self-interest, did reveal the Cuban operation
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. 94 “There has been, I believe”: Dulles memo to John A. McCone [Dulles Papers, box 36, folder 1]. 94 Seymour M. Hersh … insinuates: Seymour M. Hersh, 173–75. 95 Ted Lewis … made exactly this point: See New York Daily News, March 22, 1962 [Dulles Papers, box 36, folder 1]. 95 Hersh
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/Nixon debate and told the candidate what he knew. “He heard me out and thanked me.” 95 “the Kennedy campaign had to find some way”: Seymour M. Hersh, 174. 96 Castro put the Cuban military: Fursenko and Naftali, 67. 96 “The more we learned”: Bissell, interview with Pfeiffer, 28. 96 And when
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Intelligence Agency. New York: Random House, 2003. Hersh, Burton. The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA. New York: Scribner, 1992. Hersh, Seymour M. The Dark Side of Camelot. Boston: Little, Brown, Back Bay, 1997. Higgins, Trumbull. The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay
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, 234 Hays, John, xviii Helms, Richard, 64, 67, 81, 351, 398 Hernández, Gilberto, 255, 261–62 Herrera, Gonzálo, 189, 191, 192, 195, 196, 275, 287 Hersh, Seymour M., 94–95 Herter, Christian, 16, 51, 55 Higgins, Marguerite, 304, 385 Hiss, Alger, 21 Hitler, Adolf, 18, 82 Holt, Pat, 151 Homestead Air Force
All the President's Men
by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward · 1 Jan 1974 · 448pp · 124,391 words
home. A New York Times story said that the four Miami men were still being paid by persons as yet unnamed. The story, by Seymour M. Hersh, also said that Watergate burglar Sturgis had acknowledged that he had been told that John Mitchell had been aware of the Watergate operation and had
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about the White House. • • • If there was one Washington reporter unlikely to be taken in by White House manipulations, Bernstein and Woodward thought it was Seymour Hersh of the New York Times. A mutual friend had arranged for Bernstein and Woodward to have dinner with Hersh on April 8. Hersh, 36, horn
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, 66, 134 Harrington, Jack, 217 Hart, Tom, 271–72, 273 Harwood, Richard, 281, 320–21 Haynes, Richard, 55, 56 Helms, Richard M., 318 Herblock, 275 Hersh, Seymour M., 233, 248, 294, 302, 316 Bernstein’s and Woodward’s dinner with, 282 Higby, Lawrence, 196, 214 taping by Nixon known to, 331 Hillegass
The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
by Andrew Scott Cooper · 8 Aug 2011
to work for a foreign government. “We can’t say who the Shah’s targets would be,” one unidentified official told New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh. “We have to assume that among the people intercepted would be Americans—those working for the Mil [military advisory] Groups in Iran and elsewhere in
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“Medically, the patient was still in excellent shape”: Farah Pahlavi, An Enduring Love, 252. 213 “a very painful exercise”: Alam, 388. 213 $500 million project: Seymour Hersh, “Iran Signs Rockwell Deal for Persian Gulf Spy Base,” New York Times, June 1, 1975. 214 According to one of the few published reports
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: Seymour Hersh of The New York Times and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post provided the most detailed accounts of Ibex and the tensions it generated within
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Monitor reporters provide additional helpful insights. See Harry B. Ellis, “Behind ‘Listening Post’ Deal Closer U.S.-Iran Relations,” Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 1975; Seymour Hersh, “Iran Signs Rockwell Deal for Persian Gulf Spy Base,” New York Times, June 1, 1975; Dev Muraka, “Growing U.S. Ties to Iran Irk Kremlin
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: Bob Woodward, “IBEX: Deadly Symbol of U.S. Arms Sales Problems,” Washington Post, January 2, 1977. 214 fifteen CIA employees: Ibid. 214 $50 million contract: Seymour Hersh, “Iran Signs Rockwell Deal for Persian Gulf Spy Base,” New York Times, June 1, 1975. 214 the bidders were cautioned by the CIA: Bob Woodward
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.” Touche Ross’s contract included language that conveniently relieved the firm of “liability for any fraud, collusion, illegalities and malfeasance.” 215 shut out of Ibex: Seymour Hersh, “Iran Signs Rockwell Deal for Persian Gulf Spy Base,” New York Times, June 1, 1975. 215 Office of Munitions: Ibid. 215 hire away former and
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of Modern Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 152. 307 intrusive new measures: Ibid. 308 outright bribery in the form of $6 million in cash: Seymour Hersh, “CIA Is Reported to Give Anti-Reds in Italy $6 Million,” New York Times, January 7, 1976. 308 the collapse of the lira: Alvin Shuster
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”: Ibid. 376 “If you Americans are going to be so moral”: “What Price Morality?,” Newsweek, March 14, 1977. 376 “The problem we’re faced with”: Seymour Hersh, “Proposed Sales of Fighters to Iran Challenged Within Administration,” New York Times, October 9, 1977. 376 “It was quite apparent in Washington”: Gary Sick, All
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